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1860 Tues. Dec 11th hoods. [[strikethrough]] It [[/strikethrough]] The infant is usually naked uniformly so from the waist downward. The body of the infant is thus in constant contact with that of the mother. Nothing intervenes between them. [[strikethrough]] Her [[/strikethrough]] Talk about telegraphs as a modern invention! It's all a myth. The Innuits are an [[underlined]] old [[/underlined]] race! How old I know not. But this much we all know Esquimaux (Innuits) are an [[underlined]] Old [[/underlined]] race! The infant sends down a telegraph dispatch - Telegram I believe they now call it [[underlined]] by a single throb. [[/underlined]] Quick as lightening, you will see the head of the mother drop downward, near to the Earth, reaching up her hand to catch the [[strikethrough]] plunging [[/strikethrough]] little's darling coming headlong over her shoulders [[strikethrough]] of the Mothers. [[/strikethrough]] Another instant - the infant is still in the hands of Nature & Nature's Laws! So truthful & delicate is this telegraphic system that seldom does mother get deceived. Woe be to her if a correspondendent answer by action be not forthcoming instantly. Now being full 2, our dinner hour, I commenced to be muffled Polly doing the kindly act. I noticed her taking from Koo-Kou-yer's neck a sash & winding it about her own. I at once concluded she intended to accompany me back to the vessel. I departed from the tupic & she followed, "Menoun", her infant at the back. Poor sick woman, a sight, a smell of a good dinner enough to compensate you for this mile tramp. I had to walk quite slow as Polly's short breathings reminded me she could not judiciously proceede fast. Down the deep rugged banks of ice to reach the main sped Polly as readily as my self. We had not gone far before ahead of us we saw Tuk-oo-li-too & others. Ebierbing & Tuk-oo-li-too spent a part of the evening in my room talking of their visit to England - of the people there - the sights there &c also talking of American & American people. They long to visit my country. I have promised them if they will go with me & we succeede in performing the Mission for which I come, they shall go to America with me. God sparing our lives & prospering the undertaking indeed it will be but performing a just act to gratify their wish to visit the United States. [[end page]] [[start page]] 1860 Tues Dec 11 The people of my glorious country will be as delighted to see these noble specimens of the noble race as they to see my people. I was highly amused to night [[strikethrough]] in an illustration [[/strikethrough]] on the appearance of Tuk-oo-li-too when among other illustrations, I showed them a Frog! So disgusted - or [[underlined]] horrified [[/underlined]] was she at the sight that it was with much difficulty I could get her to take the 2d look. I then asked her if she thought she could - ever eat Frogs? Such a squeamish face, as if the "fountains of the great deep" were about to up-heave I have not seen since the day Smith took a double emetic dose! Thus is it & Tis Education forms &c Kujesse, Tunukdelien, & little Kunnia are again with me to-night. I have put them to bed where they are now enjoying balmy sleep save Kujesse who has the Job Comforter which he is striving to comfort. The day has been Cloudy - Very cloudy. No sun, no stars. X1 o'clock P.M. I have just put poor "blind George" to bed in the Main Cabin - spread several of the hands' coats - pea jackets - on 2 sea chests taken my [[underlined]] husk [[/underlined]] pillow (the only kind I allow my self to have) for him - [[strikethrough]] spread [[/strikethrough]] put my oil cloth over him. All this proves [[strikethrough]] proved [[/strikethrough]] a luxury to this man. As I bid him good night he cried out repeatedly Que-en-e-mik. Bar. at XI o'clock 29.600 Ther " " " [[dittos for: at X1 o'clock]] - 2° Wind Light N.W. Cloudy.
